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Hail in Russiaville · Aug 26, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Russiaville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 741
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Russiaville has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.4 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.4 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
57 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Russiaville saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 26, 2026 · Russiaville, IN

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Russiaville, IN on Aug 26, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Russiaville, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 26, 2026 sits in Russiaville's hail record.

This was Russiaville's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 153 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Russiaville at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Russiaville: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 35 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Wabash (40 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Star City (44 miles north, up to 0.75"); Rochester (49 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Russiaville storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

1 report filed with the NWS

These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1"
Russiaville Howard County

“Hail to at least 1 inch diameter did damage in Russiaville. Time estimated from radar. (IND)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Russiaville roofs.

Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

741 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$8.9M

Potential roof exposure — 741 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K

Close just 0.5% of the 741 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.

Claim window

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $156 on top of the $150 plan.

Russiaville hail history

2 recorded storm days in Russiaville, IN

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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 27, 2026.